Military Sends Hundreds of Troops to Reinforce Mexico's Southern Border Freddy Martin Perez - El Universal
go to original October 19, 2016

In the midst of the African and Haitian refugee crisis on Mexico's northern border, the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) and the Marines (Semar) deployed soldiers at the Mexican border with Guatemala to combat, among other crimes, human trafficking.

The soldiers and marines will provide assistance at checkpoints and patrol both clandestine and formal points of entries, where goods, firearms, drugs and undocumented foreigners cross on a daily basis.

The soldiers will patrol blind spots where the traffic of chemicals and firearms has been reported and criminal groups use to traffic migrants.

One of the operation's main objectives is to limit the activities of the crime organizations at the Mexico – Guatemala border. The marines and soldiers will also look for illegal plantations and synthetic drug labs, said Genaro Robles Casillas, a military commander working in the area.

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